unsubscribe On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send GurpsNet-L mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of GurpsNet-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Exotic Demolition (Onno Meyer) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:44:43 +0200 > From: "Onno Meyer" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gurps] Exotic Demolition > To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello everybody, > > as we all know, Traveller isn't exactly hard science fiction, but > it does have some relation to science and numbers. > > Say I want a suit of powered armor to operate in gas giants. The > original design was for the Scout Service, even if surplus suits > are used by industrial crews. > > * Jupiter has a surface gravity of 2.6 G. How much of a reserve > should the contragrav have? 51 Pegasi has roughly 4 G. (Extra > CG is easier to fit in than extra thrusters, because of the > volume constraints.) > > * With DR 1,000, a suit would be good for water up to 12,120 yds > (VXi 30). According to Under Pressure, p. 48, that means 365 > atmospheres. Does anybody know how to calculate 'depth' in a > gas giant? > > Regards, > Onno > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > > End of GurpsNet-L Digest, Vol 96, Issue 1 > ***************************************** >
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